422 A. E. Verrill — North American CepJialopods. 



Octopus Bairdii. — Additional specimens. 



925 



939 



945 



946 



947 



951 



952 



994 



997 



998 



1025 



1026 



1028 



1033 



1035 



1045 



1047 



Locality. 



Ojf Martlia\s Vineyard. 

 S. i W. 86 m. from (Jay Head, 



S. by E. i E. 98 in. from (iay Head, 



S. by W. f W. 84i ra. from Gay Head,. . 

 S. by W. f W. 87i m. from Gay Head,.. 

 S. by W. f W. 89 m. from Gay Head,... 



S. 85 m. from Gay Head, 



S. i E. 87+ m. from Gay Head, 



S.S.W. I W. 104-i^m. from Gay Head,... 

 S.S.W. i W. 103-i- ra. from Gay Head,... 

 S.S.W. i W. 102i ra. from Gay Head,... 



S.S.W. i W. 95 ra. from Gay Head, 



S.S.W. i W. 93.+ m. from Gay Head,.... 



S.S.E. f E. 108* m. frora Gay Head, 



S.SE. i E. 106 m. from Gay Head 



S.S.E. I E. 103i m. from Gay Head, 



Off Delaware Bay, 



Off Delaware Bay, ... 



Specimens. 

 No. Sex. 



S: 3]. 5 

 : 1 $ : 1 j. 



: 1 S 

 :5^;2j. 



5:45 

 : 2$ 

 : 2 $ 

 S 

 6 

 : 1 ? 



5 : 1 1. 2 



Architeuthis Harveyi Verrii). (No. 27). 



After the preceding pages were put in type, another specimen of 

 Architexthis was secured. 



This was found dead, floating at the surface, near the shore, at 

 Portugal Cove, a few miles from St. John's, Newfoundland, Novem- 

 ber 10, 1881. It was obtained by Mr. Morris, who had a photograph 

 of it made by Mr. E. liyons, of St. John's, and then shipped it to 

 New York, packed in ice, by the steamer " Catima," Capt. Davies. 

 Mr. Morris has given a brief description of this specimen in an article 

 in the New York Herald of Nov. 25, 1881. In Harper's Weekly of 

 Dee. 10, accompanying an article on the same subject, apparently by 

 the same writer, there is a wood-cut, apparently copied from the 

 photograph.* 



The specimen was purchased by Mr. E. M. Worth, and preserved, 

 in alcohol, at his museum, 101 Bowery, N. Y., where I had a good 

 opportunity to examine it about two weeks after it had been put in 

 alcohol. 



Although this is more nearly complete than any specimen hitherto 

 brought to this country, the arms and suckers are not so well 

 preserved, as in some of the other examples. All the sessile arms 

 have lost more or less of their tips, so that the actual length cannot 

 be given, and many of their suckers are either injured or lost ; the 



* This figure, though poor, gives a fair idea of the general appearance of the crea- 

 ture as it would look if lying flabby and collapsed on the shore. The peculiar appear- 

 ance of the caudal fin was due to mutilation of that organ. 



